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Alan King Quotes

Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: December 26, 1927 - May 9, 2004

Topics

Performance Doing Edge More Up

I've been acting since I was 5 years old, from primary school to secondary school, did training at drama school, which was the big thing for me because they trained me, put me out into the industry.

Training School Me Acting Drama Out

There's never been a mathematical equation that says a good experience making a movie equates to a good movie, or a bad experience on a set is going to lead to a bad movie.

Good Experience Bad Never Good Movie

I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!

Me World Lonely Artist Tell Solo

I think directing is something I would really enjoy.

Think Enjoy Something Directing

If we can ascertain and show to our people that the West is ready to deal with Iran on the basis of mutual respect and mutual interests and equal footing, then it will have an impact on almost every aspect of Iran's foreign policy behavior - and some aspects of Iran's domestic policy.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

Respect People Impact Behavior Ready

I actually have a pig collection in my cabin: all types of old wood hand-carved pigs that my mom started for me as a housewarming gift.

Me Mom Gift Pig Wood Cabin

The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I predicted a new focus on the moment, on real experience, and on what things are actually worth right now. Then 9/11 magnified this sensibility, forcing America as a nation to contend with its own impermanence.

Douglas Rushkoff

Moment Experience Focus Forward End

All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live somewhere else. You see the shape of your life at a distance.

Deborah Moggach

Life Live Roots Speak You Distance

Too many people chase dreams that they don't understand. Too many people try to go for things that they'd like to do, but they're not realistic enough to know they don't have the talent.

Dreams Talent People Enough Go Know

I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.

Fear You Back Over Spotlight Take

I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

Anthony Bourdain

Best Devil Look Afraid Tokyo Big

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Better Help Seeking Than Afterwards

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